Lambda recursive ...

[Remi Forax]

On 10/20/2012 11:39 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
> On 10/20/2012 09:53 PM, Olexandr Demura wrote:
>> Or choose to be even more functional (-: replace recursion with
>> fixed-point combinator.
>>
>> interface PreIntToInt {
>>     int apply(PreIntToInt next, int i);
>>     default IntToInt fix() { return (i) -> { return this.apply(this, i); }
>> }
>> PreIntToInt preFactorial = (self, i) -> { return i == 0 ? 1 : i *
>> self.apply(i - 1); };
>> IntToInt factorial = preFactorial.fix();
>>
>> Have a nice weekend.
> or using the mutable array trick as in lisp,
>
> IntToInt[] applier = { null };
> IntToInt factorial = i -> (i == 0)? 1: i* applier[0].apply(i - 1);
> applier[0] = factorial;
>
> Rémi

Brian remember me that I've forgotten to mention that if you use this 
trick in production,
the candyman may come.

Rémi

>
>> 2012/10/20 Remi Forax <forax at univ-mlv.fr>:
>>> On 10/20/2012 06:29 PM, Maurice Naftalin wrote:
>>>> The FAQ page with this factorial example
>>>> (http://lambdafaq.org/can-lambda-expressions-be-used-to-define-recursive-functions/)
>>>> actually did make that point. It makes it more emphatically now.
>>> You can also define the recursive function and use the method referene
>>> syntax:
>>> class A {
>>>      static int fibo(int n) {
>>>        return (n < 2)? 1: fibo(n -1) + fibo(n - 2);
>>>      }
>>>      ...
>>>      Mapper<Integer, Integer> mapper = A#fibo;
>>> }
>>>
>>> Rémi
>>>> Maurice
>>>>
>>>> On 19/10/2012 14:18, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>>>>> On 10/19/2012 05:09 PM, Boaz Nahum wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> interface FactInt { int invoke(int i); }
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      FactInt factorial = i ->
>>>>>>                     { return i == 0 ? 1 : i * factorial.invoke(i - 1); };
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But the compile (b61) says:
>>>>>> error: variable factorial might not have been initialized
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I write recursive expression like this ?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Lambda can not capture the uninitialized local variable; the trick is to
>>>>> use fields, in which case lambda will capture "this" or the reference to
>>>>> static field [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> -Aleksey.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> https://github.com/shipilev/jdk8-lambda-samples/blob/master/src/test/java/net/openjdk/lambda/FibonacciTest.java
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